As reported by Bloomberg, an up-and-coming crypto startup named CoinFLEX are taking on the crypto exchange behemoths of Bakkt and BitMEX, with the offering of physically settled crypto futures contracts with 20x leverage. Headquartered in Hong Kong, this newfound contender was formerly a unit of the UK Bitcoin exchange Coinfloor, but is now branching out as…

Even though Bitcoin has been around for over 10 years now, cryptocurrency scams are still claiming many victims. It is somewhat uncanny how easy it can be to trick people into giving up their credentials or funds in exchange for services they might not even need. One new scam is currently making the rounds, and…

CoinFLEX plans to debut physically-settled Bitcoin futures to the Asian market beginning in February 2019. The platform is a consortium with participants such as Roger Ver (Bitcoin.com CEO), B2C2, Trading Technologies, and Alameda Research among others. Bitcoin Futures Trading on CoinFLEX According to Bloomberg, CoinFLEX plans to offer futures contracts for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and…

Photo: QuoteInspector It is not a secret that the crypto market is very vulnerable not only to external factors but to internal changes as well. That’s why to understand possible upcoming trends, it is extremely important to bear in mind both groups of factors. Ethereum in 2018 2018 is getting closer and closer to its…

Bitcoinist spoke with Adam Todd, CEO of Digitex Futures, a trading platform that aims to become a commission-free, non-custodial ‘BitMEX’ for cryptocurrencies built on Ethereum. Bitcoinist: What is Digitex Futures? What are you doing that’s different/new? Can you give us your elevator pitch? Adam Todd: Digitex Futures is a commission-free, non-custodial futures exchange. Traders can speculate…

Bitcoin has set a new low for 2018, and is now inching closer and closer to BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes’ prediction that Bitcoin will reach $5,000. BitMEX CEO Called for Bitcoin to Test $5K Support, Nails Prediction Outspoken CEO and co-founder of popular margin-trading platform BitMEX has made a number of predictions about Bitcoin’s price…

When you’re trading digital assets, speed matters — particularly so if you’re engaged in high-frequency trading, when every millisecond counts. Executing orders a fraction of a second ahead of the market can mean the difference between profit and loss. New data reveals which cryptocurrency exchanges are the fastest — and which are struggling to keep…

An article appeared on the BitMEX blog this week comparing competition to the Bitcoin Core software project. It concluded that, even if the Bitcoin Core repository were hijacked or deleted, Bitcoin should remain largely unaffected. Competing Approaches BitMEX initially considered three different ways to compete with the Core project prior to examining at arguments for and against…

On 30th August, BitMEX, a peer-to-peer [P2P] Bitcoin trading platform based out of Seychelles posted a research about the recently announced Bitmain IPO on its official Twitter account. Here, the BitMEX team analyzed the previously released pre-IPO financial document. A recent tweet by BitMEX Research | Source: Twitter The research stated that Bitmain had its…

On 25th July, BitMEX, one of the leading cryptocurrency trading and exchange platform, announced that they broke the cryptocurrency market record by trading more than one million Bitcoin [BTC] in a 24 hours time span. The previous record in the cryptocurrency market for trading was 800,00 Bitcoin which was also held by BitMEX. The platform…

Hong Kong – 23 May 2018 – Caspian, the full-stack crypto trading, portfolio and risk management platform for institutional and sophisticated investors, has today announced its partnership with BitMEX (Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange) Bitcoin’s most advanced peer-to-peer trading platform in order to further support and facilitate institutional investment’s move into crypto trading. This is a press…